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Derivada de debates realizados pelo NETSIB – UFES, a Coleção Pensamento Social Brasileiro reúne textos de pesquisadores interessados nas relações entre intelectuais, cultura e democracia contribuindo decisivamente para a área de estudos do pensamento social brasileiro, em uma rara combinação de linguagem acessível e rigor científico.
Revista Trip. Um olhar criativo para a diversidade, em reportagens de comportamento, esportes de prancha, cultura pop, viagens, além dos ensaios de Trip Girl e grandes entrevistas
"For forty years, British architect Cedric Price has been one of the most challenging and witty provocateurs in the field, forcing us to cast a fresh eye on what architecture is." (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal)
"Three brave members of Brazil's Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE) are faced every day with a single duty: to derail the drug traffic inside Rio de Janiero's numerous favelas (shantytowns). But a life in the this select cadre of highly trained military police is one forever at risk. Death is simply an every-day obstacle, enemies may just be those colleagues kept closest, and breaking the law is something often done to uphold it. Written by anthropologist and former Brazilian National Secretary of Public Security Luiz Eduardo Soares and two BOPE police cadets, Andre Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel, this brutally intense semi-fictional account of the authors' experiences in BOPE examines with painstaking candor the best and worst of human nature and enlightens readers on the universal weakness of government's inability to control a thriving underground industry."--BOOK JACKET.
Marilene Felinto is one of a new wave of young Brazilian writers, and her work is among the very best. Born in 1957 in the northeast of Brazil, she moved to São Paulo in early adolescence and completed her university education there. Her fiction connects the striking contrasts of a young woman's experience and the cross-purposes of modern Brazil. In The Women of Tijucopapo nothing can be taken for granted since everything might be taken away. Risia is a heroine little interested in being heroic All she wants is for her life "to have a happy ending." To find it she must go back to Tijucopapo, where her mother was born. One moonlit night her grandmother gave away a baby, and that baby was Ris...
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This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's current affairs programme Nationwide. In a specially written introduction the authors trace the history of the original Nationwide project and clarify the origins of the two books.
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